Gordius, a boor, the father of Midas (q.v.), who was proclaimed king of Phrygia because he happened, in response to the decree of an oracle, to be the first to ride into Gordium during a particular assembly of the people; he rode into the city on a waggon, to which the yoke was attached by the Gordian knot, and which he dedicated to Zeus.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gordianus * Gordon, General Charles George